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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3940840, member: 27832&quot;]Yeah, well, <i>my</i> granny had about a suitcase full of coins, distributed among her three children when she passed. Not a key in the bunch.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve just finished a first pass through probably 50+ pounds of coins in tobacco tins that a friend inherited from her father. Dozens of rolls of cents and nickels, mostly accumulated during the 1960s (a few from after 1970). A hundred dollars or so FV of silver, mostly Roosies, some Washington quarters, some halves and Mercs, nothing as old as a Barber. And again, not a key date to be found. (I&#039;ll confess I only spot-checked the cents, nickels and dimes -- I did run through all the dime rolls to make sure they were all silver and all Roosies, which they mostly were.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Why not? First, key dates are <i>rare</i>. Second, people have been searching for them for a long time, so most of them were hard to find in circulation even when silver was still circulating. Third, he <i>had</i> some coins separated out and marked with values; my friend passed those down to her nephews, his grandchildren. They <b>cashed them in at the bank</b>. Roll-hunters, take note.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just last night I saw some new BIN listings from one of eBay&#039;s biggest lot sellers (gti2), for bags of 5000 cents <i>guaranteed</i> to contain a circulated S-VDB (something like $1800), or an S-VDB and all the other keys ($3000-something). He <i>said</i> &quot;I toss in one of each key into the bag&quot;. I&#039;m virtually certain that every one is a serious problem coin. He claims most of the &quot;unsearched lot&quot; sellers on eBay buy from him. It wouldn&#039;t surprise me a bit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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